{
  "id": "IND-51",
  "category": "Surplus disposal",
  "capability": "Sell, transfer or donate excess/surplus defense property through disposal pathways",
  "summary": "Dispose of property through GSA-administered or delegated processes and specific defense conservation/BRAC authorities, using competitive sales or statutory public-benefit transfers.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "40 U.S.C. § 541",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section541&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "40 U.S.C. § 545",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section545&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "40 U.S.C. § 550",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section550&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2694a",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2694a&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2662",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2662&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "GSA Administrator for general surplus regime; Service Secretary for specific defense conveyances",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Installation commander and Service facilities/real-estate staff",
      "Service installation secretariat / ASD(EI&E) policy"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Military Department installation budgets / project sponsor"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary concerned or properly delegated real-estate/construction official"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "USACE district real-estate/construction offices",
      "NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands",
      "AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "GSA disposal officials",
      "EPA / State environmental regulators",
      "State/local or eligible nonprofit transferees"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "Energy, Installations, and Environment: mission and responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/"
    },
    {
      "title": "USACE district real-estate execution: acquisition, management, disposal",
      "url": "https://www.saj.usace.army.mil/About/Divisions-Offices/Real-Estate/"
    },
    {
      "title": "NAVFAC real estate business line: Navy/Marine Corps execution",
      "url": "https://pacific.navfac.navy.mil/Facilities-Engineering-Commands/NAVFAC-Hawaii/About-Us/Our-Services/Real-Estate/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AFCEC organizational responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/About-Us/Organizational-Structure/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Excess/surplus screening and applicable disposal delegation",
    "Advertising or valid negotiated/public-benefit exception",
    "Conservation transfers require eligible recipient and perpetual-use/reversion protections"
  ],
  "limits": [
    "DoD does not freely sell any needed asset or retain any proceeds",
    "BRAC, environmental and homeless-assistance conditions may apply; exceptions action-specific"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Receipts handled under controlling disposal/appropriation law; no general self-financing authority."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.",
  "availability": "Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.",
  "confidence": "High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.",
  "currentness": "2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.",
  "family": "Property, construction and housing",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Property & leases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "facilities-energy"
  ],
  "office_links": []
}